Sentences with phrase «fiction debut»
This year's best crime fiction debuts kept us entertained and on the edges of our seats as if they were authored by seasoned pros.
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An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation.
The Invisibles By Cecilia Galante Morrow • $ 14.99 • ISBN 9780062363510 The author of several popular YA and children's books makes her adult fiction debut with the moving story of four young women — close friends when they lived together at a group home for teens — who reunite 15 years later and confront the troubles from their past.
Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.
«The Fits,» the feature fiction debut of Anna Rose Holmer, is all of 72 minutes long.
A gripping Young Adult fiction debut by bestselling author Walter Mosley.
Named for a flower whose blood - red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies — of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss — that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.
Three lives intertwine across time and space in this stunning science fiction debut.
Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story of two princesses in the Romanov court who practiced black magic, befriended the Tsarina, and invited...
Yewande Omotoso, a Barbados born author who moved to South Africa in 1992, makes her U.S. fiction debut with this...
The film tells the eerie story of isolated twin brothers who begin to suspect that their mother, swathed in bandages after cosmetic surgery, is not actually their mother at all, and the taut minimal dialogue complements the elegant filmmaking and delivers an assured fiction debut.
Of the remaining 9, though, there is only one first novelist, Alice LaPlante, who garners the treasured Mystery Showcase daily double by landing on both our top 10 and best crime - fiction debut lists.
Following her self - funded fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere.
A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award - winning twenty - five - year - old Thai - American writer.
New Yorker writer Elif Batuman puts an absurdist twist on the traditional campus novel in a smart and original fiction debut.
In her confident fiction debut, Elizabeth Little puts a fresh spin on this character.»
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land.
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Rowell made her actual fiction debut with her 2011 adult novel, Attachments, but her YA debut is too good not to include on this list.
Elegant and heartrending, and one of the most accomplished fiction debuts of the year, Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale that reveals humanity at its best through forgiveness and hope.
Metropolis marks a superb fiction debut.
The Costa Award - winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement - a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes of immigration and exclusion.
Jarhead meets Redeployment in a suspenseful and smart fiction debut that has been called «thrilling, tragic, and darkly funny» by National Book Award - winning author Phil Klay.
In his impressive fiction debut, Luis Alberto Urrea conjures the magic and mystery of late 19th - century Mexico.
Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene have worked on popular shows like «Law & Order: Special Victims Unit» and «ER,» but Kill Switch marks their long - form fiction debut.
Variety announced recently that Philipp Meyer's critically acclaimed fiction debut, American Rust, will be adapted for film by Walter Salles and Jose Rivera.
Here's another reason that WOOL was one of the only fiction debuts to hit the Sunday Times list in the UK last year: The e-book was out first... Readers are the ones who build buzz, on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
A witty, well - plotted fiction debut.»
Author's adult fiction debut sweeps aside its rivals, becoming the fastest selling hardback novel since 2009
Where Monsters Dwell is the most awaited English language crime fiction debut in years.
The Killing Lessons by Saul Black British novelist Glen Duncan (The Last Werewolf) makes a pseudonymous crime fiction debut with a nail - biter of a police procedural starring two sick serial killers and a substance - abusing homicide detective.
Fans of rich historical intrigue like Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall or the engrossing 16th - century pageantry of Álvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death should consider Matthew Carr's historical fiction debut, The Devils of Cardona.
Yewande Omotoso, a Barbados born author who moved to South Africa in 1992, makes her U.S. fiction debut with this provocative, enlightening and at times outrageously funny novel about two old and very opinionated neighbors in Katterijn, a wealthy suburb of Cape Town.
In what is certain to be one of the most talked - about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait of betrayal and retribution set against a backdrop of Iran's tumultuous history, dramatic landscapes, and cultural beauty.
A young girl's discovery of a remarkable archeological find is the spark for this artfully told and imagined science fiction debut.
«An assured fiction debut... Like Richard Russo's novel Empire Falls, it smartly dissects and dynamics of small - town relationships and the interplay between prominent families and the less powerful over several generations... carefully constructed... you'll fall for «Swan.»
Finn's debut is this year's only winner of the coveted Booklist daily double — a slot on both our top 10 and crime - fiction debut lists.
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Omotoso is a Barbados born author who moved to South Africa in 1992, and she makes her U.S. fiction debut with this provocative, enlightening and at times outrageously funny novel about two old and very opinionated neighbors in Katterijn, a wealthy suburb of Cape Town.
YA author Cantor ponders that question with sensitivity and insight in her adult fiction debut.
Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.
The only commonality found in Sundance buzz issue doc film Blackfish and Gabriela Cowperthwaite «s fiction debut...
Writer - director Mike Cahill's 2012 science fiction debut «Another Earth» was a breakout Sundance hit that ultimately irked nearly as many people as it thrilled.
Berg, making her fiction debut, and her director of photography, Rob Hardy, push Every Secret Thing into the overcast dimness that has become a color - palette requirement for cinematic narratives in which loved ones get murdered or go missing.
Like its characters, this fiction debut manipulates the viewer and takes them on an outlandish trip through China's underground.
Which Andrew Jarecki's fiction debut, All Good Things, for all its dark - stringed instruments and temporal shenanigans, does not.
Now better known for his standalone successes like Shutter Island, Mystic River and The Given Day, Dennis Lehane made his fiction debut in a more conventional manner — writing a stellar detective series.
The Son by Philipp Meyer Ecco • $ 27.99 • ISBN 9780062120397 On sale May 28, 2013 Philipp Meyer made his fiction debut with a bang: His very first novel, American Rust, was one of the most talked - about literary releases of 2009, earning him a place on The New Yorker «s Best 20 Writers Under 40 list.
Anna Lawrence Pietroni, in her fiction debut, captures for the first time the dialect of Black Country, and the effect is utterly mesmerizing.
South African author Sally Andrew makes her fiction debut with the first in a new crime series.